Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
Microsoft is pulling all the stops to get developers on board with creating apps for the Windows Phone Marketplace. Its latest strategy is Generation App, a bundle of different tools and services with a single promise for the developer: it will guarantee that you complete the app development process from start to finish in 30…
Seton Hall University, which is about 15 miles away from New York City, it announcing that the entire class of 2016 will get a Nokia Lumia 900 for “free”. I say “free” because according to Seton’s website, they charge $16,350 per semester to educate full-time undergraduate students. That’s $32,700 per year. Considering AT&T will sell…
After a few false starts, the tablet computer market is fully taking off. The surge is led by Apple’s iPad tablet, which debuted in 2010 and single-handedly comprises a significant majority of the tablets found in consumer households today. While we know tablets are a hot-commodity item, a new report out of comScore indicates just…
Like it or not Windows Phone is here to stay. No matter how much money it costs, Microsoft just can’t leave this game. Simply put – it’s too profitable to be abandoned. Millennial Media thinks there’s money to be made in the emerging platform, hence it keeps updating its Windows Phone SDK to allow developers…
Samsung quietly swapped out its CEO, replacing the mobile-oriented Choi Gee Sung with the display and chipset chief Kwon Oh Hyun. According to a Bloomberg report, Kwon helped Samsung become the top computer-memory chip manufacturer in the world. He was rewarded for his excellence with a position that puts him in charge of Samsung’s global business, which…
Anton Nagy from Pocketnow has produced an incredibly informative 18 minute video where he pits Nokia’s new Lumia 610 against the year and a half old LG Optimus 7. The Lumia 610 is the first device on the market to run Windows Phone Tango, which is a version of Windows Phone that supports devices with…
Research firm IDC released its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report today. It predicts that Android market share is at its peak right now, but Windows Phone will continue to grow mostly at its expense. Seriously, that’s what it said. “The smartphone parade won’t be as lively this year as it has been in past,” said…
Nokia has announced an update that they’ve made available for AT&T Lumia 900 devices. The update contains a host of bugfixes that Nokia has identified by way of user feedback from the popular Windows Phone device, and the update should squash most, if not all, of those pesky bugs on the device. The update is…
Windows Phone Marketplace has reached an important milestone, surpassing 100,000 app submissions from 23,825 different publishers. Microsoft reached this important milestone faster than Google (Android Market / Google Play), but slower than Apple (AppStore). At the moment I’m writing this, some 313 apps are added every day, with 26,493 being added in the last three…
Game of Thrones season 2 finished with a bang, as expected, this past Sunday. If you haven’t seen the show, you’re missing out but we decided to liken some of the houses to some of the most popular mobile operating systems around today. It’s all in fun (obviously), so feel free to drop in your…